Course Overview:
1st Grade Grammar and Penmanship teaches students to communicate clearly in writing. Through penmanship instruction, students will learn how to form all lowercase and uppercase manuscript letters. Each penmanship Lesson reinforces the letters, phonograms, and words that are introduced in the corresponding Phonics and Spelling Lesson. Through grammar instruction, students will learn the purpose of words, sentences, and punctuation. Students begin by learning about parts of speech and parts of sentences and build up to whole sentences and punctuation rules. Throughout the course, students will construct their own writing handbook. The handbook will include examples of manuscript letters as well as grammar terms and rules. The course culminates in students writing correspondences to authentically practice grammar and penmanship.
Prerequisites:
Kindergarten (Recommended)
Required Materials:
- pencils
- 9 binders/folders for workbooks
- 9 binders/folders for writing projects
- 1 pack colored pencils, crayons, or markers
Syllabus:
Unit 1: Penmanship Basics
- Lesson 1 - Letters c, o, a
- Lesson 2 - Letters d, g, p
- Lesson 3 - Letters s, f, h
- Lesson 4 - Letters k, l, i
- Lesson 5 - Letters e, j, t
- Lesson 6 - Letters b, p, m
- Lesson 7 - Letters n, r, u
- Lesson 8 - Letters y, v, w
- Lesson 9 - Letters x, z
Unit 2: Words
- Lesson 1 - Words with sh, ee, th
- Lesson 2 - Words with ow, ou, ch
- Lesson 3 - Words with oo, ar, or
- Lesson 4 - Words with ay, ai, er
- Lesson 5 - Words with oy, oi, ir
- Lesson 6 - Words with ear, wor, ur
- Lesson 7 - Words with ew, ck, tch
- Lesson 8 - Words with ng, nk, ph
- Lesson 9 - Words with wh, aw, au
Unit 3: Uppercase Letters
- Lesson 1 - Capital Letters
- Lesson 2 - Uppercase Letters A, T, I
- Lesson 3 - Uppercase Letters E, F, H
- Lesson 4 - Uppercase Letters E, F, H
- Lesson 5 - Uppercase Letters V, W, Y
- Lesson 6 - Uppercase Letters J, Q, X
- Lesson 7 - Uppercase Letters U, S, Z
- Lesson 8 - Uppercase Letters K, L, M, N
- Lesson 9 - Uppercase Letters B, D, P, R
Unit 4: All About Nouns
- Lesson 1 - What is alphabetical order?
- Lesson 2 - What are nouns?
- Lesson 3 - Which nouns are common and proper?
- Lesson 4 - Which nouns are singular and plural?
- Lesson 5 - What are pronouns?
- Lesson 6 - What kind of nouns?
- Lesson 7 - How many nouns?
- Lesson 8 - Which nouns?
- Lesson 9 - What are a, an, and the?
Unit 5: All About Verbs
- Lesson 1 - What are verbs?
- Lesson 2 - What are state-of-being verbs?
- Lesson 3 - What are verb phrases?
- Lesson 4 - What is the present tense?
- Lesson 5 - What is the past tense?
- Lesson 6 - What is the future tense?
- Lesson 7 - What are sentences?
- Lesson 8 - What do sentences look like?
- Lesson 9 - How else can a sentence end?
Unit 6: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Lesson 1 - Whose nouns?
- Lesson 2 - When did it happen?
- Lesson 3 - How did it happen?
- Lesson 4 - Why do verbs change?
- Lesson 5 - How do action verbs change?
- Lesson 6 - How do state-of-being verbs change?
- Lesson 7 - How do past tense verbs change?
- Lesson 8 - Which words break the rules?
- Lesson 9 - What are the Three Rules?
Unit 7: Writing Sentences
- Lesson 1 - What do we know about nouns?
- Lesson 2 - What are prepositions?
- Lesson 3 - How do we write sentences with prepositions?
- Lesson 4 - What do we know about pronouns?
- Lesson 5 - What are indefinite pronouns?
- Lesson 6 - How do we write sentences with indefinite pronouns?
- Lesson 7 - Which pronouns go in the subject?
- Lesson 8 - Which pronouns go in the subject?
- Lesson 9 - How do we write sentences with pronouns?
Unit 8: Using Words Correctly
- Lesson 1 - What do we know about nouns?
- Lesson 2 - What are possessive nouns?
- Lesson 3 - How do we write sentences with a possessive noun?
- Lesson 4 - What do we know about pronouns?
- Lesson 5 - What are possessive pronouns?
- Lesson 6 - How do we write sentences with possessive pronouns?
- Lesson 7 - What are the parts of a word?
- Lesson 8 - What do suffixes tell us about nouns?
- Lesson 9 - What do suffixes tell us about verbs?
Unit 9: Using Commas and Conjunctions
- Lesson 1 - What do we know about parts of speech?
- Lesson 2 - What are conjunctions?
- Lesson 3 - How do we write sentences with conjunction?
- Lesson 4 - How do we write a list?
- Lesson 5 - How do we write a date?
- Lesson 6 - How do we know about sentences?
- Lesson 7 - What is a compound sentence?
- Lesson 8 - How do we write compound sentences?
Unit 10: Writing and Editing Letters
- Lesson 1 - What is a letter?
- Lesson 2 - How do we edit our writing?
- Lesson 3 - How do we edit verbs?
- Lesson 4 - How do we edit adverbs?
- Lesson 5 - How do we edit details?
- Lesson 6 - How do we edit sentences?
